Machine Design Expert Witnesses
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Machine design expert witness candidates are typically licensed professional engineers with backgrounds and expertise in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, product design, structural engineering, and/or industrial design. The chosen expert is often a member of an industry or technical organization, such as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), IEEE, or the National Tooling & Machining Association (NTMA).
Frequently, matters requiring machine design expert witness services involve intellectual property, such as patent infringement litigation, inter partes review or trade secret disputes. A forensic expert can reverse engineer components to prove (or disprove) intellectual property infringement or theft. A machine design expert could also be called in on breach of contract disputes to consult on technical issues, which could require forensic engineering work. A machine design expert witness might also provide testimony in a torts matter like personal injury or a product liability case involving the failure analysis of industrial equipment, construction equipment, or a medical device.
Litigation support by a machine design expert witness could include reverse engineering, an expert report, an expert opinion, and expert testimony at a trial. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request a mechanical engineer with prior expert witness experience. An engineering expert witness needs to not only have technical expertise but must possess the ability to explain technology to lay people. In addition, clients may seek a mechanical engineering expert witness for pre-litigation consulting work.
Whether the case involves vehicles, appliances, farm machinery, machine tools, factory automation systems, robots, or anything in between, Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn an expert witness search around quickly and provide the right balance of expertise and testimony to support each unique project.
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Machine Design Expert Witness - Representative Bios
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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Machine Design experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Machine Design landscape.
Expert Witness #235236
This expert is an electro-mechanical engineer specializing in design and development of electronic, mechanical and electro-mechanical machinery and equipment for commercial and consumer products, material handling systems, automated assembly machines, weaving and tufting machines and sub-systems. This expert's extensive experience in developing products and machine systems has qualified this expert as an expert in analyzing a multitude of products, systems and machines. This expert has conceived of, designed, fabricated, produced and supplied over sixty (60) machines and products to clients and customers and is quite familiar with machine operating tolerances as well as the patent process. This expert has designed, fabricated and supplied a folding machine that would fold a variety of different disposable surgical sheets where the operating slit was at the outside edge of the last fold. This expert holds many patents for the equipment and products designed, built and manufactured for clients. This expert understands the litigation process; knows the role as an expert witness and/or consultant; this includes over one thousand depositions and over two hundred trials in both federal and state courts in numerous states in the US.
Start Machine Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #238573
This expert has many years of experience in product design, development and manufacturing and holds a Master's degree in Bioengineering. Machine guarding is central to this expert's career. In designing machines for automated testing of athletic shoes this expert integrated machine guards into every machine. This expert designed a robotic test cell that incorporated a myriad of machine guards. In this expert's forensic work, this expert has been the expert witness in a variety of cases involving machine guarding.
At an early age this expert completed machinists training and understands machine guarding from a user's, as well as a designer's perspective.
Start Machine Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #248180
This expert holds a PhD in Precision & Microsystems Engineering, Mechatronic System Design and serves as Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and of Optics. Specializing in machine design, instrumentation and metrology, particularly surrounding opto-mechanical machines/instruments and machines for manufacturing, this expert is published widely on surround custom instruments & systems that have been built and qualified for research purposes. Additionally, this expert teaches elements of machine design for manufacturing. In addition to academic experience, this expert has worked in the industry for an optics manufacturing equipment company. This expert has served as an expert in litigation.
Start Machine Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #254474
This expert is an electrical engineering expert with many years of hands-on experience in industrial controls, automation, machinery, equipment, industrial safety and machine safeguarding. This expert applies expertise to forensic casework involving industrial controls, machine safeguarding, workplace safety, industrial/commercial/residential electric power systems, electrical related fires, electric shocks, and electrocutions. This expert is proficient in the National Electrical Code, National Electrical Safety Code, Electrical Safety in the Workplace, OSHA Standards for General Industry, and OSHA Electrical Safety Standards.
For many years this expert was a controls engineer for a control system integrator, where this expert was involved in control panel design, industrial automation, machine control, electrical design, software programming, installation, electrical contractor supervision, machine safeguarding, commissioning, project management, electrical power distribution and workplace safety. This expert was a corporate engineer performing electrical engineering in 4 different manufacturing facilities, including industrial controls, automation, process control, process engineering, quality control, robotics, industrial safety, machine safeguarding manufacturing supervision, and product development.
This expert is a licensed Professional Engineer in more than 20 states and a member of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers (NAFE), National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), American Association of Safety Engineers (ASSE) as well as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
This expert provides technical investigations, analysis, reports, and testimony toward the resolution of commercial and personal injury litigation involving design, construction, operation, maintenance and training of electrical systems, equipment and devices.
This expert’s areas of expertise include:
Automation, controls, automated manufacturing, automated assembly lines, conveyors, robotics, material handling, packaging, robotic cells, automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS), test cells, gantries, cranes, elevators, conveyors, lifts, turn tables, pumps, fans, scales, instrumentation, motion control, process control, boiler control, steam control, speed control, industrial controls, HVAC systems, air conditioners, air handling, boilers, compressed air, exhaust, centrifugal and absorption chillers, heaters, ovens, presses, grinders, cutting, broaching, stamping presses, hydraulics, pneumatics, vision, inspection, weighing, RFID, barcode, RF Radios, recipe/batch management, gas analyzers, motor controls, motion control, electrical control panels, control panel design/build (UL certified), PLC, HMI, MES, SCADA and software development, industrial communications (wired and wireless), information systems, data collection, data reporting, alarming, and industrial safety.
This expert’s expertise also extends to:
Industrial control software, programmable logic controllers (PLC), human machine interface (HMI), graphical user interface (GUI), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). Other software Visual Basic, C++, Microsoft SQL. PLC Software, Allen Bradley/Rockwell RSLogix/5/500/5000/IPDS, Siemens S5/S7/TIA Portal, Mitsubishi MEDOC/GX Developer/GX Works, Omron, Telemechanique, Modicon,B+R, Opto22, Steeplechase VLC, PC Worx, Wago, Automation Direct, Koyo HMI / GUI / SCADA Software, Rockwell RSView, Rockwell FactoryTalk, Allen Bradley Panelbuilder, Siemens WinCC, Mitsubishi GOT, Mitsubishi GX Worx, Wonderware, Intellution, Iconics, Cimplicity, Proficy iFix, Indusoft, Automation Direct C-more, Industrial Communication Networks, Ethernet, Profibus, Profinet, Ethernet I/P, DeviceNet, ControlNet, Interbus, and ASi-Bus.
Start Machine Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #259324
This expert is a Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, and is internationally known in Human Computer Interaction for contributions to software tools that make new forms of interaction more broadly accessible. This expert's broad research interests are in Human-Computer Interaction, User Interface Software and Technology, and Ubiquitous Computing. This expert's specific research is often motivated by challenges at the intersection of technology and design, developing new tools that empower individuals in important domains like health.
This expert's research includes novel applications of low-cost and unobtrusive personal sensing, novel applications of non-expert machine learning, and tools for runtime modification of graphical interfaces. This expert's work on non-expert interaction with machine learning considered domains such as activity recognition, image search, social network friend groups, and gesture recognition. These helped define new approaches to everyday interaction with big data and new approaches to machine learning in software developer tools. This work on runtime interpretation and modification of interfaces helps unlock interaction, enabling new approaches to deploying interaction techniques in the current technology ecosystem.
Start Machine Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #260239
This expert is both a Professional Engineer and a Ph.D. who focuses on human factors and the biomechanics of injury causation. This expert has significant experience industry as well as consulting experience in product design, manufacturing and safety-related issues and the applicable standards for a wide variety of products and applications. This expert's experience with Industrial accidents in particular, includes machine guarding, rotating machinery, pinch-points, forklifts, explosions and OSHA/MESHA issues. This expert is well published, is a frequent presenter at industry conferences, and holds a machine guarding patent with another application pending.
Start Machine Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #238561
This expert is a Professional Engineer with Mechanical Engineering, Structural Engineering, and Civil Engineering degrees and certificates. This expert has a good deal of ladder logic experience within the context of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and Computer Numerical Controls (CNC). This expert was engaged in the design, manufacture, installation and startup of robotic pick and place machinery, performing all engineering calculations necessary in the design of these robotic machines and programming the PLCs during the initial installation period. This expert has also dealt with the design and construction of industrial material handling systems, such as conveyors, piping systems, crane, monorails, robotics, PLCs, hydraulics, pneumatics and electrical controls. This expert had sole responsibility for designing, installing, programming and startup of CNC for manufacturing machine equipment, including selection of components, ladder logic programming, modification of machinery, and machine design. This expert holds two U.S. Patents and is working on two others. This expert has been engaged as an expert witness in a number of cases.
Start Machine Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #259843
This expert holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and is a Professor Emeritus. This expert taught undergraduate, masters and PhD classes in Mechanical Engineering and Software Development. Typical classes were Machine Design, Design of Machine Elements, Software Engineering, Human Computer Interface, and Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. This expert developed and taught the university’s first robotics program. This expert also provided consulting to industry giants and has continued to be active as an industry consultant.
This expert has published over 60 papers, and is the author of the a publication relating to machine safety. This expert was elected to a National Materials Advisory Board Committee that analyzed how improvements could be made to Structural Components. This was in response to the Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster.
This expert has been hired by both Plaintiffs and Defendants, roughly (70 % plaintiff and 30% defendant).
Start Machine Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #266731
This expert is an internationally recognized expert on the design, development and control of adjustable speed motor drives and generators over a wide range of applications, with more than 25 years of experience in this area. Current research interests include electromechanical energy conversion, design and control of power electronics converters/systems, numerical analysis of electromagnetic fields in energy conversion devices, and electric propulsion of electrified transportation. Among this expert’s funded work on all–electric drilling and hybrid hydraulic pumps includes the following:
• Experimental Development of LSRM Drive for Deep Well Pump
• Multi-Machine Control of Linear SRM Drives for Pump Applications
• Novel Low-Cost Method to Install Geophones for CO2 Monitoring
• Design of a Plunger System for Compressor Applications
• Design of Super High-Speed Motors for Drilling Applications
This expert holds 18 US patents with six more pending, and has co-authored over 300 scientific articles. This expert earned PhD, MS, and BS degrees in electrical engineering, and is currently a distinguished professor of engineering where this expert leads research and education in the area of motor drives and power electronics.
Start Machine Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #220843
This user interface/user experience expert holds a Ph.D. and has worked for over 30 years in academia and industry, focusing on computer vision, imaging, pattern recognition, machine learning, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, robotics, and augmented reality. This expert is a Professor Emeritus at a well-regarded university, has worked in these areas, and has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on related topics. Career accomplishments include various awards and election as a Fellow of prominent professional associations in computing, engineering, and pattern recognition. This expert holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. from a prestigious technical university program.
This expert has background and expertise in human-computer interaction, with particular emphasis on interaction as well as working knowledge of design and software supported by a computer science background. Litigation experience includes patent infringement, patent validity, and statutory litigation involving computing technologies, including trial testimony regarding patent litigation. This expert has been involved in patent and statutory litigation regarding computing technologies for over 15 years, including over 40 cases, over 60 declarations and reports, over 15 depositions, and a number of trial testimonies in district court and arbitration. Most matters have related to patent infringement and validity. Academic and professional work has included computer vision, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, augmented and virtual reality, and machine learning, with experience teaching undergraduate and graduate courses and advising graduate students in these topics and related areas. Work in HCI and AR/VR has included UI/UX research and implementations.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Machine Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #255751
This mechanical engineering and safety expert is a licensed registered Professional Engineer (PE), a board-certified diplomate of forensic engineering, and holds bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering, with over 40 years of forensic experience including machine safety and design.
Before earning engineering degrees, this expert gained extensive experience as a kitchen manager and restaurant manager operating commercial meat slicers and meat saws. In a career as a forensic safety engineer, this expert has performed safety audits and worked on hundreds of matters involving machine guarding, including guarding of many types of machinery where human hands are required to come into proximity with moving parts.
This expert is very familiar with motor braking, machine guarding, interlocked guarding, warning signs, and operator training. This expert has worked on dozens of cases involving food processing equipment, including mixers, grinders, and slicers.
This expert is familiar with the operation and safety considerations of commercial chicken-cutting equipment, including spring-loaded finger guards, interlocked knife-cover systems, and manual cutting processes for whole chickens. Prior restaurant kitchen management and food preparation experience included manually cutting large quantities of chicken using knives, providing practical familiarity with the benefits and risks of equipment used for high-volume chicken processing.
This expert has worked on thousands of matters as an expert in safety and safe design over more than 40 years.
Start Machine Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #260246
This GUI/iPhone accessibility expert holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, completed dissertation work in machine learning, and has over 20 years of industry and academic experience.
This expert has experience with both UX and UI (user experience and user interface) design and has created mobile applications. This expert led a federally funded machine learning research program and later was responsible for launching TV devices with global OEMs. This expert designed 3G wireless telecommunications systems for networks and launched a number of machine learning startups.
This expert has litigation experience and has filed reports and testified at deposition in cases involving major technology companies.
Start Machine Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #276993
This human factors expert holds a PhD, CSP, and CHFP, with graduate and undergraduate degrees in experimental, human factors, and cognitive/perceptual psychology, as well as graduate degrees in Industrial Engineering and Business. This expert has over 40 years of experience in accident investigation, product design and development, and operational testing and analysis.
This expert has testified on instructions and warnings on multiple occasions and has written several papers on the topic. Product design issues can include both mechanical engineering and human factors considerations, including ergonomic guidelines for machine design, installation, and use. This expert is the author of over 60 technical papers, research reports, and book chapters addressing human factors, industrial ergonomics, safety, and accident investigation.
This expert has provided expert testimony in state and federal courts across the country and has acted as the lead investigator in over 500 projects over more than 20 years.
Start Machine Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #282753
This product design expert holds a Ph.D. and P.E. credential, has over 30 years of experience in product development, is an inventor on over 5 utility patents, and serves in a leadership role in a university mechanical engineering department.
This expert has extensive experience in patent litigation and has given deposition testimony over 25 times, including over 20 times in patent matters. This expert has testified before the ITC a number of times and has testified in multiple jury trials. In total, this expert has been retained as an expert in over 40 patent cases and has supported infringement, noninfringement, validity, and invalidity positions. Some of these patents involved features such as sliding mechanisms, adjustable and sliding components, ribbed structures, wire and sheet metal components, and related product-design elements.
As an engineering consultant and practicing engineer in industry, this expert has designed products using sliding mechanisms, spring-loaded adjustable components, sheet metal components, and injection-molded components used in fastening tools and other devices. This expert received a patent for a fastening tool involving a fastener insertion system.
Start Machine Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #282753
This product design expert has over 30 years of experience in product development and is an inventor on over 5 utility patents. This expert has also developed an interdisciplinary course at a university that teams engineering and business students with the goal of developing commercially viable products. In an engineering leadership role at a manufacturing company specializing in electromechanical products, this expert co-authored the company's new product development process.
This expert has supervised employees in China performing finite element analysis on small machine parts. This expert has extensive experience in patent litigation covering a wide range of products and has been retained as a technical expert in over 30 patent cases, including infringement, noninfringement, and IPR matters where expertise in product design was required.
Start Machine Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #283967
This machine safety and machine guarding expert is a senior-level consultant and mechanical engineer who investigates incidents involving personal injuries, fires, and explosions.
This expert provides technical analysis, litigation support, and expert testimony in legal, insurance, and industrial contexts. Personal injury and product liability work has included evaluation of material handling equipment, furniture failures, and other products and machines.
This expert specializes in product failure analysis, load and stress testing, and design analysis of mechanical systems. This expert has investigated equipment and component failures and has experience in the design and fabrication of mechanical components.
Start Machine Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #291239
This mechanical engineering and machine design expert holds a PhD and has over 20 years of combined experience in mechanical engineering across academia and industry. This expert's industry experience includes over 15 years in product development, machine design, energy-efficient appliances and sustainability, thermal systems design, and engineering management. This expert has long led industry-academia funded research and has over 10 U.S. pending and issued patents that resulted in products sold in North America, with most innovations involving sustainable design for domestic and commercial appliances. This expert has advanced knowledge of computer-aided engineering, CFD, and computational mechanics, and is an expert user and trainer in computer-aided design using solid modeling.
This expert's litigation experience includes matters involving commercial appliances, modular power-plant equipment, marine air-conditioning blower ducting, ice-making platforms, appliances, OEM products, and related consumer-product issues, including matters before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). This expert has prepared expert reports, been deposed, and provided testimony, including testimony before the ITC.
Start Machine Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #291483
This mechanical engineering expert holds an MSME, is a PE, and is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at a well-regarded university, with decades of experience involving mechanical elements, including ball joints, and experience teaching senior-level machine element design.
This expert performs analytical analysis to evaluate failures due to loads and also has access to FEA analysis. This expert has worked on mechanical failure issues involving U joints breaking on industrial machinery.
This expert has testified in over 70 depositions and over 15 trials.
Start Machine Design Expert SearchExpert Witness #293789
This human factors/operator-vehicle interaction expert holds a PhD, is a Certified Human Factors Professional (CHFP) and Certified Safety Professional (CSP), and serves as a principal consultant for a respected human factors and safety consultancy. This expert holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in Experimental, Human Factors, and Cognitive/Perceptual Psychology, as well as graduate degrees in Industrial Engineering and Business. This expert has over 40 years of experience in field and laboratory research involving control and display systems, aviation, surface vehicles, accident investigation, product design and development, and operational testing and analysis.
This expert spent over 25 years in U.S. military and reserve service, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. While in uniform, this expert worked with a military research laboratory primarily in pilot-vehicle interface design, display technologies, and aircrew training. This expert consults on human factors, applied human performance, ergonomics, and safety.
Areas of particular expertise include human-machine interface design and evaluation; human capabilities and limitations in applied environments; industrial ergonomics; instructions and warnings; perception, vision, visibility, slips, trips, and falls; evaluation of equipment, facilities, and structures from a human-use standpoint; and safety-related issues generally.
This expert has experience with operator-machine interaction, including designing controls and displays for both air and ground vehicles. This expert also has experience as a senior human factors engineer for an automotive electronics division and began a career designing controls and displays for high-performance aircraft while serving in the military.
This expert is recognized in operator-vehicle interaction and has authored over 60 technical papers, research reports, and book chapters addressing human factors, industrial ergonomics, safety, and accident investigation. This expert has been awarded a number of U.S. patents, along with industry awards for new product design, and has served on national standards-making committees for a variety of standards organizations, including ANSI, ASTM, and SAE.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant. This expert has provided expert testimony in state and Federal courts across the country and has acted as lead investigator in hundreds of projects over more than 20 years.
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